The adjutant's name is Zhou Zhen, and he was the first guard officer in Guangdong, but he is not the same as most of the officers who usually think about how to fish and flesh the military household all day long.

It won the unanimous support of many military households up and down the guards, and when the military department issued a letter asking all guards to start reforming.

Zhou Zhen finally breathed a sigh of relief, just when he thought that the imperial court was going to gradually remove the guards.

The bigger news came, the imperial court directly began to abolish the military household system, which made him feel even more that he finally had a good life to live.

Just when he was happy for the military households under him, he once again explained the news of building the Pingnan Army and suppressing the rebellion against the Annan people.

Zhou Zhen's heart was surging.

Joining the army again, many of the previous military families followed suit, unwilling to leave this former good officer.

After the subsequent training, he was assigned to Xian Feng's subordinate as the deputy division commander, and when Xian Feng was promoted to the post of chief of staff of the Pingnan Army, Zhou Zhen became the division commander.

After that, everything is probably clear... The hard work of compiling and training the soldiers of Annan, the officers of each division were embarrassed, and finally Xian Feng kindly arranged for his own people, that is, Zhou Zhenlai.

As a division commander, it is not a problem to train the so-called Annan soldiers, let alone a difficult task.

After all, Daming has now sorted out a set of "Recruit Training Manual" that is in line with Daming's situation, and originally Zhou Zhen thought that as long as he continued to train Annan soldiers according to this manual, it would not be a big deal.

But these soldiers.

But something is different.

According to the practice and the requirements in the recruit drill manual, before the drill, these Annan soldiers should be carried out in accordance with the unified rules of the Ming army, and these Annan soldiers should also be organized according to a squad of ten people, three squads and a platoon.

The 20,000 Annam soldiers recruited will eventually become two Annam garrison divisions.

Due to the different languages, communication during the training will inevitably encounter obstacles, Xian Feng specially summoned a large number of translators to deploy in this training as a company, as for where did so many translators come from.

This has to be mentioned that under the Nguyen Dynasty, although the so-called small court of Annam built by it has existed in name only, those officials have some real skills, first of all.

If you want to be an official in Annan, the first step is to know a little Chinese, at least there must be no barriers in listening, speaking, reading and writing.

After all, nominally, the previous Annan was the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty didn't set up a large number of consolation divisions in Annan before...

Among them, almost all the officials of the Ming Dynasty knew Annamite dialect.

These people have all been selected in a unified manner, but the way of drawing is very different.

Those officials of the Ming Dynasty were politely invited and deployed in a borrowed way.

The officials of the original Nguyen Dynasty did not have this kind of treatment, and they were directly kidnapped... If you want to survive, you have to cooperate, otherwise... Just wait!

Huo Weihua's implementation in Annam was not all Huairou policies, and there was no good face for the original Tusi tribe and the officials of the Nguyen Dynasty.

Not sending him directly back to the West is already a sign of mercy.

Now when the Pingnan Army needs you, do you dare to bargain? Isn't this looking for death?

The next few days.

All of them should be used to train these soldiers, and first of all, let these Annan soldiers have a clear understanding of the concept of formation.

However, after the formation was completed and the formal training process began, these Annan soldiers immediately began to complain about the hardships.

Why?

Because of the language barrier! It's even more because these guys are simply resistant to training to a certain level.

Since it is difficult to speak, then these officers and soldiers of the Pingnan Army began to be polite, almost everyone was holding a thick and long solid wooden stick, and the slightest mistake was a greeting.

Strictness is the only requirement for training.

Some of them served as soldiers for the Tusi tribe in the mountains and forests in the north, but the other Annamite soldiers in the south-central part of the country had such a concept of training.

Isn't being a soldier just to be able to better oppress the people?

Training, fighting?

No one told them that they had to do these things as soldiers!

Where would Zhou Zhen care about such a thing, he directly explained to his soldiers, and said, "As long as you don't die, you will practice to death!" ”。

The cannon fodder army should also be a little bit of the pursuit of the cannon fodder army.

At the very least, it has to look like an army.

Just the first step of the station queue caused many Annan soldiers to suffer a lot of beatings.

But these Annan soldiers did not have the slightest consciousness that they would become better if they were beaten, and they were beaten and suffered. After all, they have been used to being beaten all along, and the progress has been slow...

Zhou Zhen was furious.

The free and loose Annan soldiers really gave him too much psychological impact, and this difficulty could make them feel miserable.

If they are really asked to go to the battlefield and become cannon fodder one day, then the enemy on the opposite side has just started to attack, and these Annan soldiers who are responsible for the impact will have to turn around and run!

When the time comes, not to mention the enemy on the opposite side, your own people will have to beat these defeated soldiers of Annam...

Is this worth it?

As a result, the scale of training began to continue to increase.

...

Colonization seems to be a very simple matter, it is enough to think of the colonies as dumping sites for industrial commodities or sufficient commodities, or to plunder raw materials directly and use them as production sites for industrial raw materials.

But in fact, it is not so simple, Zhu Youzhen is well versed in the development process of history, when the frenzied killing and plundering began, when the local natives were driven as slaves...

It is easy to create a large-scale rebellion, after all, this method of robbery and plunder is actually a bit too cruel.

So Zhu Youzhen thought of a simpler way, that is, heavy taxes!

The tax system, Daming currently has only one model, that is, the agricultural tax, commercial tax and other taxes are being used in parallel.

And because Zhu Youzhen encouraged agricultural production and commercial activities, the internal tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty was actually declining.

In order to make up for this part of the deficit, Daming has only one way, and that is to be the same as almost all Taixi countries today.

Open the Pandora's box of colonization.

However, Zhu Youzhen's colonization method is a little different, in Zhu Youzhen's view, colonization can never be simple endless plunder.

It's about drawing it slowly.

In today's world, colonial rule is still relatively simple and crude, and warships and troop carriers are directly driven to one place.

Musket fire all the way, artillery siege.

Once you've taken down the ruler of the place, plant a flag, and the place can begin to change hands!